Tesla Roadster was introduced in 2008. It is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) and was the first all-electric vehicle in serial production capable of being driven on a United States highway. Other records belong to this model: it was the first to use lithium-ion batteries and to reach a 200 miles/ 320 km range per charge. This two-door roadster is capable of going from 0 to 60 mph/ 0 to 100 km/h in 3.7 seconds.

Tesla was born in Silicon Valley by the hand of Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning in 2003. The engineers got financial support from the PayPal founder Elon Musk that later gathered a series of investments from prominent figures on new technologies, like the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and former eBay president Jeff Skoll among others. Tesla was named after the electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current.
Since its birth, Tesla Motors ha... more